Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 05 Mar 1995 21:38:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Just a little off at the knee, please

tr...@eskimo.com (OTIS) writes:

> TAMPA, FLORIDA (AP):
> A Tampa hospital where doctors accidentally cut the wrong foot off a
> patient began a policy yesterday requiring staff to write the word
> "No" on patients' limbs that are not to be cut off.

It would be safer to write PHI GAMMA DELTA on the limbs that are not
to be removed.  Then the doctors would truly be compelled not to
destroy the sacred letters.

The only problem would be that everyone who went to the hospital for
adenoids or liposuction would come out with PHI GAMMA DELTA written on
their arms and legs.  They could never after wash their limbs, and if
they ever subsequently got gangrene medical science would be helpless.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil

ObFraternUL: The true, official name is PHIDELTAGAMMA.
             You wouldn't call your country a "c ount ry", would you?